Sauron
03-26-2005, 11:15 PM
Not sure where this belongs, but none of the other forums seemed appropriate.
My dad's had a stroke about 3 years ago, and is now in a nursing home. He's about 80% recovered, but he can't really live by himself anymore. He also can't read any longer, and about half the time his speech comes out garbled. His sense of humor is still there, and his memories, so the father I knew is still intact. But the communication can be challenging at times.
So dad watches a lot of TV. He always did, but now he watches even more. So I just bought my dad a new flat-screen HDTV. I figured that if he's going to watch TV as much as nursing home residents do, then it would be great if he could have the full color, HDTV experience. It's kind of small (23 inch screen), but just right for his residency room. So it was delivered, installed, etc. But my dad doesn't like it; the remote control is simply too challenging for him and he kept hitting buttons that were setting all kinds of different display modes, etc. The administration of the nursing home was patient with us, but they also were somewhat flustered by it.
So bottom line is we took the flat-screen out, and I bought my dad a standard, CRT-type television instead. Dad's happy, everyone's happy.
But here's the problem: I'm stuck with a flat-screen HDTV that I don't want. I tried returning it, but the store won't let me. I tried explaining the situation with my dad, but they're not budging. It's not defective, so I can't really invoke the Consumer Protection Act to get my money back. :fuming:
I wasn't planning on buying myself an HDTV right now, I wanted a bigger one than this and I was going to wait until next year for the prices to fall. I already have a flat-screen monitor for my PC, so I don't need it for that. I suppose I could donate it to a charity and take a tax write-off for next year, but the value of the write-off won't be nearly the cost of the TV itself.
Any ideas? Does anyone have experience selling large electronics on eBay?
My dad's had a stroke about 3 years ago, and is now in a nursing home. He's about 80% recovered, but he can't really live by himself anymore. He also can't read any longer, and about half the time his speech comes out garbled. His sense of humor is still there, and his memories, so the father I knew is still intact. But the communication can be challenging at times.
So dad watches a lot of TV. He always did, but now he watches even more. So I just bought my dad a new flat-screen HDTV. I figured that if he's going to watch TV as much as nursing home residents do, then it would be great if he could have the full color, HDTV experience. It's kind of small (23 inch screen), but just right for his residency room. So it was delivered, installed, etc. But my dad doesn't like it; the remote control is simply too challenging for him and he kept hitting buttons that were setting all kinds of different display modes, etc. The administration of the nursing home was patient with us, but they also were somewhat flustered by it.
So bottom line is we took the flat-screen out, and I bought my dad a standard, CRT-type television instead. Dad's happy, everyone's happy.
But here's the problem: I'm stuck with a flat-screen HDTV that I don't want. I tried returning it, but the store won't let me. I tried explaining the situation with my dad, but they're not budging. It's not defective, so I can't really invoke the Consumer Protection Act to get my money back. :fuming:
I wasn't planning on buying myself an HDTV right now, I wanted a bigger one than this and I was going to wait until next year for the prices to fall. I already have a flat-screen monitor for my PC, so I don't need it for that. I suppose I could donate it to a charity and take a tax write-off for next year, but the value of the write-off won't be nearly the cost of the TV itself.
Any ideas? Does anyone have experience selling large electronics on eBay?